UO's Mat Johnson gains visibility with 'Invisible Things'

Turns out that even in space, politics feel just like they do at home.

Partisan tribes living on a moon of Jupiter shout at one another in the sci-fi world of Invisible Things, the new novel by Mat Johnson, an author, screenwriter, and Philip H. Knight Chair at the University of Oregon.

The bubble city of New Roanoke functions like any American city, protagonist Nalini Jackson explains, "with a largely bifurcated political culture."

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